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From: gray@ibis.cs.umass.edu (Lyle Gray)
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Subject: Re: Anybody remember the DVORAK keyboard layout?
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Date: 20 Jun 91 17:06:03 GMT
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In article <1991Jun19.214525.14977@vuse.vanderbilt.edu> benson@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Paul Benson) writes:
>In article <32247@dime.cs.umass.edu> gray@ibis.cs.umass.edu (Lyle Gray) writes:
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>>Hmmm, this could be interesting.  I type at 90wpm on a QUERTY keyboard... 
>
>  90 wpm and you spell QWERTY wrong?  Come on that's easy! ;)

So, it's not a word I use frequently, and my hands spelled it phonetically...

It comes from finger memory typing.  My concious mind doesn't know where the
keys are on the keyboard.

As for breaking the 100 wpm barrier, it's not just maximum finger nimbleness
that affects that limit:  It's program response time.

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